overshoe
IPA: ˈoʊvɝʃu
noun
- A shoe worn over an ordinary shoe, as:
- To protect from water or mud.
- To prevent damage to a floor.
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Examples of "overshoe" in Sentences
- Such an eloquent defender of the overshoe is rare in the slush.
- Margaret said, propping herself against the house with one hand, while she pulled at a tight overshoe.
- Two minutes later — two hectic minutes — they were disturbed by an embarrassed couple also seeking the idyllic seclusion of the overshoe-closet.
- Two minutes later -- two hectic minutes -- they were disturbed by an embarrassed couple also seeking the idyllic seclusion of the overshoe-closet.
- When the wood road led into a clearing in which there was a rough little house of slabs, the child stopped altogether, and, looking down, began nervously to draw lines in the snow with her overshoe.
- Susan caught cold from a worn-out overshoe, and spent an afternoon and a day in bed, enjoying the rest from her aching head to her tired feet, but protesting against each one of the twenty trips that Mary
- After a campus-wide contest to name the school's athletic teams in 1925, freshman Margaret Hamlin won ten dollars for her suggestion of "Zippers" after a popular rubber overshoe of the same name made by local company B.F. Goodrich.
- The highest grades of native rubber may be used for waterproofing the uppers of a fine overshoe, while reclaimed rubber, of a cheap class even, may be good enough for the heel, which requires only to be waterproof and durable, without too much weight, and with no elasticity.
- And he later wrote a poem called "Passage to India" in which he talks about things like the laying of the Atlantic cable, the telegraph cable, between America and England, and the transcontinental railroad that met in Utah in 1869 -- all these advances, technological advances, which maybe to us look a little bit primitive -- the rubber overshoe and the icebox and so forth.
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